¡Martes por la tarde, enlaces mexicanos!

by | Jun 21, 2022 | Daily Links | 238 comments

My father’s day went well. I cleaned the pool. We went to one of those escape room places and stole Willy Wonka’s secret fudge recipe (its crap).

Did the whole barbecue thing too.  Although I did have to skip the gym, and I don’t like missing deadlift day.  I rather like feeling like this  to start my week.

 

Anyhow here are some links!

A quick search for what happeneing in Latin America brings up exactly one event corresponding to the biases of English-speaking media around the world.  Nothing else happened over the weekend. Just ask the new St. Ronnie.

I have a better idea:  fuck off.

When RETVRN TO MONKE goes wrong.

Its a free for all!

Biden gives oil executives the axe…j/k this is Brazil.

 

Here’s a question, can make this song today?

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238 Comments

  1. Count Potato

    Colombian inequality is pretty much who isn’t in the cocaine business.

  2. Scruffy Nerfherder

    U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said on Monday that once some countries start implementing a global minimum tax on multi-national companies, other countries with a lower corporate tax rate would need to follow along or risk losing tax revenues

    A tax cartel, backed up by American guns.

    GREATEST NATION ON EARTH

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      We’re not really the good guys anymore are we?

      • Bobarian LMD

        Anymore? Just not as bad as those other motherfuckers.

    • Count Potato

      Well, Mexico is drug cartel backed by American guns.

    • juris imprudent

      Saudis laugh their asses off.

  3. Count Potato

    I love how there isn’t enough money to secure our own border ($12B?) but we can give over $40B to Ukraine to try to secure their border.

    • Drake

      The kickback ratios just aren’t there for the southern border.

    • Chafed

      The border is going to cost Team Blue a bunch of seats later this year.

      • The Other Kevin

        All those different nationalities are worrying. I’m betting sooner rather than later we’re going to see some actual terrorism.

      • robodruid

        I have a difficult time seeing a terrorist event that help team blue. Even a “false flag” event would have to have a higher count than the Las Vegas gun show. Maybe a small nuclear exchange.
        ?

  4. Rat on a train

    Countries would implement minimum corporate tax to avoid revenue loss, says Yellen
    D states get hard thinking about creating a minimum tax. There’s no where to flee peasants.

    • tarran

      Today I found myself checking up on the Seasteading website. It’s dead; links that go nowhere; pages that take forever to load; new blog posts that appear monthly (being generous).

      Talk about squandering their runway.

  5. Count Potato

    “As the country’s first-ever left-wing leader – with a running mate, Francia Márquez, who will become the first black vice-president”

    Because it worked so well here?

    • Sean

      Ouch.

      • juris imprudent

        Oh she can’t be as bad…

      • Chafed

        Never say never.

    • Tundra

      👍

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Killshot

  6. Rebel Scum

    Monkey in “bullet-proof” vest found dead after bloody cartel shootout in Mexico

    This whole situation is bananas.

    • Sean

      Did he have a permit for that?

    • Rat on a train

      A primate was killed at the scene
      I thought it was 12 primates including the monkey.

      • Tonio

        [hoots approvingly]

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      There are no good guys in this. A pox on both their houses.

  7. Rebel Scum

    Wokeism teetering on the edge.

    Harris Teeter and Kroger are all over social media for the wrong reasons after deciding to remove pro-American products following leftists complaining about them in the wake of mass shootings.

    One person tweeted on Monday, whining about Harris Teeter selling patriotic items that read “Give me liberty or give me death” and “America, love it or leave it,” according to Fox Business. They carped that the messages were insensitive following mass shootings that have taken place across the nation.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Jingoism aside, what do overt displays of patriotism have to do with mass shootings?

      • Chafed

        In reality, nothing. In a leftist’s head, everything.

      • The Hyperbole

        I thought it was about the guns not the patriotic phrasing, the pictures I saw had scary rifles and ammo and stuff. Hoplophobia more than anti-Murica.

      • Raven Nation

        Yeah, it’s a little hard to tell because, you know, Twitter, but it does seem that at least one tweet focuses on images.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      One person

      Of course, the fact that they’re a Democrat running for state office is conveniently left out.

  8. Tundra

    I had a shitty lifting week, too.

    However, I’m resting between sets, shit posting and listening to Molly Hatchet.

    Not too shabby.

    • Count Potato

      I never would have guessed you were a southern rock fan.

      • Tundra

        In the weight room, all bets are off.

        But yes, I love Southern Rock.

      • hayeksplosives

        Too bad you didn’t get to see/hear Mr Splosives in his Southern Rock cover band when we all lived in Minnesota.

        They were good! They still are, but in my completely unbiased (!!) opinion, Mr Splosives was a superior bass player to the one they have now.

        https://southernexpressbandmn.com/

      • Tundra

        Yes, that would have been fun! At least I got to hang out with the monster in the Top Hat!

        Is he in the videos?

      • hayeksplosives

        No, I think they’ve updated them. There might be one on YouTube though.

      • Tundra

        That’s still on the site! I was just being jealous of the Rick!

    • kinnath

      ted

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Yes,

    • Ownbestenemy

      Next revelation is first set of cops that went in shot kids and that is why they backed off for an hour

      • juris imprudent

        I don’t think the kids would’ve kept calling 911.

      • db

        I don’t know–in that situation the kids might not have even been able to identify them as cops–just more bad guys. They wouldn’t be thinking particularly clearly, being under that kind of stress–and being, well, kids after all.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Hell, adults wouldn’t be thinking straight.

      • rhywun

        I think it was kids in adjacent rooms calling 911.

        No one in the room with the shooter is making any phone calls.

      • juris imprudent

        I had the impression that there were kids inside that room did survive.

      • Mojeaux

        By playing dead.

      • rhywun

        I was wondering about that. You’d think someone would have discovered the answer.

      • hayeksplosives

        I think I read that somewhere too, that one kid hid under the bodies of others. The only two rooms they’ve said that the killer entered were 111 and 112.

        Then yesterday we hear that one of the hallway cops had a wife inside telling him she was bleeding to death (she did not survive).

        I believe he’s the LEO that was “escorted out” of the school by two others. So he clearly wanted in but was forcibly prevented from rescuing.

        I want to see every bit of that hallway fisheye camera footage. They are desperately trying to suppress it.

      • Ownbestenemy

        This is beyond incompetence

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        Yeah, it really stretches credibility that a cop whose kid was being murdered on the other side of the wall would have so much restraint as to sit there listening to his kid and her classmates get massacred and then back out of the school because boss said so.

    • Chafed

      JFC. I hope this puts a big dent in the public perception of police competence.

  9. Ownbestenemy

    FAA is petitioning its employees to be part of “DHS Volunteer Force” to “provide humanitarian and logistical support for those processing through the immigration system”

    • juris imprudent

      Is that at CS15 payscale?

      • Ownbestenemy

        60-day reimbursable detail to So.Cal, AZ, or TX.

        GS 1-15
        No drug testing….hmm

        Non-sensative/Low Risk

    • Tonio

      Well, are you going to volunteer? Would make a good topic for a write-up.

      • Ownbestenemy

        You’ve seen and met my wife. You really think she would be up for 2 months of me doing that? I can hardly use the restroom without her wondering where I am

    • Chafed

      For those of us who don’t work for the government, what does this mean in practice?

      • Tonio

        Sir, one does not “work” for the government; one is employed by them.

      • Don escaped Texas

        * leaps to feet applauding *

      • Ownbestenemy

        Means you take a detail doing administrative work. I’m guessing ramping up to a blanket amnesty?

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      A while back State Dept offered temporary detail to process passport applications. One of the locations was NH. I wasn’t eligible because I was a contractor.

      • db

        Wouldn’t you say that if you aren’t needed enough at one government job enough to prevent being loaned to another government agency, that perhaps your job isn’t particularly useful?

  10. Rebel Scum

    One would think you would know better given that you lose to U16 men’s teams.

    “Show me the evidence that trans women are taking everyone’s scholarships, are dominating in every sport, are winning every title. I’m sorry, it’s just not happening,” she said. “So we need to start from inclusion, period. And as things arise, I have confidence that we can figure it out. But we can’t start at the opposite. That is cruel. And frankly, it’s just disgusting.”

    “We need to really kind of take a step back and get a grip on what we’re really talking about here because people’s lives are at risk,” Rapinoe added. “Kids’ lives are at risk with the rates of suicide, the rates of depression and negative mental health and drug abuse.”

    “We’re putting everything through God forbid a trans person be successful in sports. Get a grip on reality and take a step back,” she said.

    • Tundra

      No. Fuck off

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      No

      Take your lousy attempts at guilt tripping and shove them up your ass.

    • Count Potato

      So what if a men’s soccer team identifies as women?

      • R.J.

        PRETTY PRETTY RJ IDENTIFIES AS A WOMAN. JOINING WRESTLING TEAM!!!

        Clearly this would be acceptable now too.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      It was just a scrimmage…the boys could have won by more.

    • MikeS

      Translation: “It’s no big deal that some biological girls/women will lose opportunities to trans boys/men because there aren’t that many of them anyway and they need it more.”

      Modern feminism is pretty fucked up.

    • Tonio

      “Get a grip on reality and take a step back.”

      Yes, she should do that.

    • Chafed

      She seems determined to spit in the face of people who support her.

    • rhywun

      She’ll be singing a different tune the day she’s facing a team with trannies on it.

      • Count Potato

        Isn’t soccer extremely popular in Brazil? I’m sure they could put together an all transgender team pretty easily.

    • JaimeRoberto (shama/lama/ding dong)

      Christ, what a cunte.

    • JasonAZ

      Every time she opens her mouth, it’s non-stop stupid.

    • Mojeaux

      I honestly don’t get feminists who want to welcome Teh Penis into the ranks of that which is female after they’ve spent years screaming about getting Teh Penis OUT of the ranks of that which is female.

      • Rat on a train

        Whoever has the most victim points wins.

      • Tulip

        There are feminists opposing this. They don’t get the outlets or coverage, but they are working to stop this nonsense.

      • rhywun

        Further evidence that trannies are at the top of the victim stack in present year.

  11. Certified Public Asshat

    This Texas teen wanted an abortion. She now has twins.

    …and also happy with her decision?

    Looking at her daughters, Brooke struggled to articulate her feelings on abortion. On one hand, she said, she absolutely believed that women should have the right to choose what’s best for their own lives. On the other, she knew that, without the Texas law, her babies might not be here.

    “Who’s to say what I would have done if the law wasn’t in effect?” she said. “I don’t want to think about it.” Brooke considered all that she’d lost: long nights at the skate park, trips to the mall, dropping $30 on a crab dinner just because she felt like it.

    “I can’t just really be free,” she said. “I guess that really sums it up. That’s a big thing that I really miss.” She sat silently for a while, Olivia’s hand wrapped around her finger. “It’s really scary thinking that I wouldn’t have them,” she said.

    • Plisade

      You know, we’ve put a man on the moon, we’ve got robots on Mars… You’d think by now we’d have figured out a way to have sex AND prevent pregnancy. Come on, humans! Do better!

    • Drake

      Hold old should your kids be when you tell them you planned to double-murder them?

      • Tonio

        Yeah, someday they are going to find that article. Should be an interesting dinner table convo.

      • trshmnstr the terrible

        It’s not an age thing, it’s a timing thing. The perfect time is when you’re drowning them in the bathtub because you didn’t get to go to the movie theater with your friends.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      Brooke considered all that she’d lost: long nights at the skate park, trips to the mall, dropping $30 on a crab dinner just because she felt like it.

      Personally, I think it’s perfectly normal to kill people who make it a burden to eat a crab dinner and take trips to the mall.

      • Certified Public Asshat

        Life is all about getting drunk at a skate park, getting food poisoning from a cheap seafood dinner, and buying junk from the mall.

      • Drake

        Don’t forget – getting banged by random guys without birth control.

      • Rat on a train

        It’s for anybody who gets in the way of your dreams.

      • Tulip

        And yet, she’s happy she has them. Many young parents think about what they’ve given up. Give her a break, she got played by the reporter.

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        Tulip is wise.

    • Certified Public Asshat

      Thomas had her first kid at 20, she said, just as she was transferring out of community college with hopes of starting law school. If the timing had been different, she said, she might have been a prosecutor. Instead, she hopped from one retail job to another: Bath & Body Works to Walgreens to Home Depot.

      (Thomas = Brooke’s mom (AKA grandma))

      She couldn’t become a manager at a Bath & Body Works, but she totally could have been a prosecutor (ugh) if it wasn’t for getting pregnant.

      • Sensei

        Look it took John Kennedy Jr. three tries to pass the bar…

      • Fatty Bolger

        Yeah, that made me laugh. Her Mom seems like a real piece of work.

      • Tulip

        Yes, some not very bright women got played by a reporter. Yet, I don’t think this is working quite the way the reporter thought it would.

    • JasonAZ

      If this law saves just ONE life… Oh wait….

  12. Raven Nation

    For those of you missing European football already, please be advised that the 2022-23 Champions League started today with the Preliminary Round. In the first semi-final, the Andorran champions beat the San Marino champions. In the second semi-final, the 2021 Icelandic champions (Icelandic football is a spring/summer sport so the 2022 season is only half-way through) lead the 2021 Estonian (also a spring/summer league) 3-1 at half-time.

    • rhywun

      And if I went back in a time machine, I could watch it on cable instead of having to pay for a subscription.

  13. Chafed

    “Here’s a question, can make this song today?” Good question. Maybe? On the one hand, it’s entirely sympathetic to Indians. On the other hand, it’s written and performed by white guys. Same analysis applies to Run To The Hills.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      Yes, and its also a band called Anthrax.

  14. Count Potato

    Male student in custody after reportedly bringing loaded, semi-automatic GHOST GUN into Maryland middle school and showing his classmates, triggering temporary lockdown

    The student was found in a classroom with a loaded P80 semi-automatic handgun in his waistband that held 16 rounds including one in the chamber, law enforcement told ABC7.

    P80’s are often called ghost guns, as they can be constructed at home and oftentimes do not have serial numbers, making them hard to trace.

    Police said the student showed the gun to other students, who then reported it to school security staff according to ABC7’s Brad Bell.

    Previously, NBC Washington’s Prince George’s County bureau chief Tracee Wilkins reported that the gun was an automatic weapon, but that report has been contradicted by subsequent reporting.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10938155/Male-student-custody-reportedly-bringing-automatic-weapon-Maryland-middle-school.html

    • juris imprudent

      Authorities baffled that the gun just vanished without a trace!

    • EvilSheldon

      I wonder if the kid made it himself?

      • R.J.

        Sure looks home made.
        I hare all reporters, news and related jackassery.

      • Animal

        I hare all reporters…

        Yeah, somebunny sure screwed that article up.

      • R.J.

        Kill me. I can’t type for shit today.

      • Sean

        And put serial numbers on it. 🙄

      • juris imprudent

        F U 2

  15. Count Potato

    “Outrage in Brazil as female judge bans pregnant 11-year-old rape victim from having an abortion”

  16. Rebel Scum

    But they need that for when you get uppity about your taxes.

    As the Biden administration demands tougher gun control in the wake of multiple mass shootings recently, U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz on Saturday noted something curious about its firearms policy.

    One department seems to be hoarding ammunition, and not who you might think. It’s the IRS.

    Gaetz discussed the issue with Breitbart Radio on Saturday. He pointed out in just one three-month span – March 1 to June 1 – federal tax authorities bought $700,000 worth of ammunition.

    “The IRS should be people in cubicles with green [eye] shades and calculators,” the Fort Walton Beach Republican said. “They shouldn’t be people with guns and ammo.”

    • Count Potato

      “$700,000 worth of ammunition”

      So a few dozen cartridges?

    • Animal

      I’d like to see him be a little clearer than “federal tax authorities.” Is that the IRS? Or the Department of Revenue, which includes the Secret Service, who are armed law enforcement?

      Poor choice of words.

      • Ownbestenemy

        Probably why the words were chosen anyway

      • mexican sharpshooter

        The ATF technically enforces tax code.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Thanks. Halfway through it. Mearsheimer is, as usual, very convincing and uses actual references to published documents instead of relying on argument by assertion, as is the norm for just about everyone else.

      I’m hoping Germany and France fall out with the US and end it before it gets completely out of control.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Cavalier? Listen, I’m not saying we won’t get our hair mussed but I think we’re only looking at 100,000,000 dead, plus or minus 20,000,000, depending on the breaks.

      • Drake

        Yet either us or the EU have talked the idiot Lithuanians into trying their absolute best to start WWIII by violating multiple international agreements. That isn’t a war we could hope to win conventionally.

  17. The Other Kevin

    Happy to hear you had a good Father’s Day. I did too, I got to cook out with two of the three kids and my father in law.

    Meanwhile, my team had a hockey camp last week, and now we hear someone tested positive for covid. And now one of my teammates has a cough and tested positive. But I’m going about my life unless and until I get symptoms, at which case I’ll stay home like I would any other virus.

    • mexican sharpshooter

      You monster. Being responsible and everything…

      • hayeksplosives

        I used one of my “free” at home test kits today. Came up negative. I stayed home anyway because I have SOMETHING I don’t want to share with teammates.

  18. Rebel Scum

    It’s just a transition…to a recession.

    The White House indicated Tuesday they are preparing for an economic recession, despite President Joe Biden’s assertion that it is “not inevitable.”

    The Tolly-bahn takeover wasn’t either.

    When asked about a possible recession in the United States economy, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre praised the president for his economic agenda.

    “We see that our economic strength that we have seen from this past year from the action that the president has taken with the American Rescue Plan with what we have seen with the historic gains, that is going to help us deal with the recession,” she said before correcting herself during the daily press briefing on Tuesday.

    “Right now, we don’t see a recession right now,” Jean-Pierre added. “We are not in a recession right now. Right now, we are in a transition.”

    • The Other Kevin

      We are all transitioning to being poor.

    • Tonio

      *cough* Bullshit *cough*

    • The Other Kevin

      “White House: Joe Biden Has Prepared Americans to ‘Deal with a Recession’”

      They’re right. He’s conditioned us to not believe him, and to expect his policies to produce the worse possible outcome.

    • kinnath

      Recession isn’t inevitable. Crash and burn all the way to a depression is quite likely.

      • Fourscore

        A difference in degree of interpretation. If we’re already in an R just a little tiny slip and we hit the D. Fortunately we’ve had experience with that, FDR showed us the way out. A few 3 letter agencies and we’re on our way, unless, unless, that Trump SC sticks it to us.

      • Mojeaux

        FDR showed us the way out

        WW2…

      • Animal

        History doesn’t always repeat, but it often rhymes.

      • MikeS

        FDR showed us the way out.

        Except Biden et al. seem to be getting us into a world war before we even get to the depression part.

    • rhywun

      we are in a transition

      *crosses legs*

  19. Rebel Scum

    The nerve of this woman.

    .@January6thCmte Vice Chair @RepLizCheney (R-WY): “I would urge all of those watching today to focus on the evidence the committee will present. Don’t be distracted by politics. This is serious. We cannot let America become a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence.”

    • Raven Nation

      “to focus on the evidence the committee will present.”

      Accurate? Don’t worry about the evidence we’re not presenting.

    • trshmnstr the terrible

      We cannot let America become a nation of conspiracy theories

      Yeah, okay. Stop doing conspiratorial stuff and I’ll stop believing conspiracy theories

      • Certified Public Asshat

        “Simply stated, there’s no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”

    • juris imprudent

      and thug violence

      Like shooting lawyers?

    • Raven Nation

      I’m also not clear: is this committee supposed to be gathering evidence or presenting evidence (in theory at least). That is, was their original charge to investigate or prosecute?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        This committee is supposed to put on a show trial, with no defense.

        It’s pure propaganda.

    • kbolino

      “We cannot let America become a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence.”

      You forfeited this prerogative in the days after George Floyd died. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Dick Cheney…worst Cheney or second worst Cheney?

      • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

        So, Cock Cheney, vs. Cunte Cheney?

        You Be The Judge!

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Worst, so far.

        He’s directly responsible for far more deaths than his bitch daughter.

  20. DEG

    Colombia for the first time elected a leftist as president,

    What could possibly go wrong?

  21. juris imprudent

    We had a nice grift going, everyone got along and got their share.

    Stipanovich is speaking for a type in American politics that we’ve seen over and over again at the very top: the cynical consultant who just wants to get his secretly or not-so-secretly moderate Republican over the line so we can cut taxes, bomb Islamic nations, and get a few good rounds of golf in — damn the hippies and the snake-handlers. This is the type of person that ran the McCain campaign and the Romney campaign into the ground. The only success this type ever had in politics was George H. W. Bush, and only because he was riding in after Ronald Reagan and running against Michael Dukakis.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      Wall Street Republicans suck

  22. Mojeaux

    @KK just occurred to me that today’s R&B playlist is all OOOOOWAAAABABY and started laughing.

    • Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

      Hahahaha!

      Oooohhhh giiiirrlllll

  23. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    2 loads of laundry done, yet more culling of the wardrobe accomplished. All my daily wear clothes need to fit in one large suitcase.

    • R.J.

      I wish you luck. I need to reduce my wardrobe too, and stop being so sentimental.

  24. DEG

    From the deadthread, on Sean’s link about changing a bill imposing an age minimum for “assault-style” rifles into a constitutional amendment on constitutional carry.

    I posted this over on Glibs discord. I’ll just cut and paste, typos and all:

    ——–
    This trend in PA of turning everything into a constitutional amendment to get around the governor doesn’t bode well.

    I get why it started – the legislature wrote a stupid emergency powers law that had as a check on the governor that the legislature can terminate a state of emergency at any time with a concurrent resolution. The problem is the state constitution requires the governor’s signature on any concurrent resolution, except a concurrent resolution to adjourn the legislature, or else the concurrent resolution has no effect. One of the two constitutional amendments was to change that provision of the state constitution so that concurrent resoltuions to end a state of emergency don’t need the governor’s signature to take effect. The other was to enshrine the governor’s emergency powers in the constitution, but in a form much, much more limited than what was in legislation. People were pissed about what Wolf had been doing, but Wolf wasn’t going to back down. With two more years in his term and not enough votes to overturn a veto or impeach, the legislature got creative. OK, the first amendment I mentioned is OK, but the second was kinda… out there.

    In addition to constitutional carry, there are proposed amendments on voter ID and privatizing the state stores. What else is PA going to get stuck in its already kinda overweight and bulky constitution?
    —–

    For db said about PA being gun friendly: Sorry, I disagree when it comes to gun laws. This is one area where NH shines.

    Constitutional carry, and even before Constitutional carry we had shall-issue for concealed carry permits and open carry legal without a permit without the “Cities of the First Class” shenanigans.

    No age minimums in state law that I’m aware of. In fact, back before Constitutional Carry there was a case in Milford, NH where the police chief wanted to deny a permit for a 16 year old. The town attorney told him to issue the permit because there is no age minimum in NH state law. The police chief lobbied to have the state legislature change the law, and the legislature ignored him. PA has age minimums in state law.

    Private sales legal. PA prohibits private sales of handguns.

    The only place NH state law prohibits carrying firearms is in courthouses and buildings housing courts. The latter is because in some parts of the state, instead of building a dedicated courthouse, the State government will rent office space to use as a courtroom. I recall PA has a pretty big list of places where carry is forbidden by law.

    No registry. Compare with PA’s registry that totally isn’t a registry because the courts and the PA state police say so, so therefore it is totally not a registry.

    NH still has state level background checks for handgun purchases, like PA. There has been a push to get rid of them in NH.

    Now, as for gun culture, I think PA beats NH.

    • EvilSheldon

      Gun culture is really the important thing, though. PA has an inspiring number of local ranges and gun clubs.

      • Sean

        Lehigh Defense is in town and so is Lancer.

        Buy more Lancer mags, people!

    • db

      DEG,

      It’s fine to disagree, but what I wrote was

      …PA is one of the most gun-friendly states in the entire country, and Pennsylvanians are armed and participate in shooting sports to a high degree.

      I didn’t say it was the best, just one of the best, and PA has had better laws than many states for a very long time. Yes, private handgun sales are not permitted without a background check (Federal and State for handguns)–same as New Hampshire. Yes, permits are required for concealed carry. Yes, the State Police operate an illegal handgun registry based on their in-house “Instant Check” system.

      BUT:

      PA has basically zero requirement to get a concealed carry permit. I applied for mine on my 21st birthday, got it a month later (in Centre County they actually checked references), and never had to take a training course or any kind of test. Virtually every other state in the country has more onerous conditions for getting a concealed carry permit, which is why PA’s permits weren’t accepted by many states for such a long time. PA has basically none. It’s a shall-issue state, so unless you’re a felon or answer the weed-out questions wrong, or one of your references hates you, you will get the permit.

      There is virtually no place, other than government buildings and schools, in which carry is prohibited in PA. In other states, there are often prohibitions against carrying in establishments that serve alcohol. PA has no such restrictions. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh at one time attempted to restrict carry further, but they got their hands slapped by the Legislature.

      As EvilSheldon says and you acknowledge, we have a very strong gun culture and places to shoot.

      • db

        PA was well ahead of other states in acknowledging the use of silencers in hunting, and doesn’t restrict any NFA firearms as long as the owner complies with Federal law. It has taken a long time for other states to catch up to PA’s level of goodness. While some have surpassed PA in recent years, we have, I think, one of the longest histories of permissive rules regarding firearms in the country.

      • DEG

        I don’t know NH hunting laws as I don’t hunt.

        NH has never to my knowledge regulated NFA items. Federal regulation only.

      • DEG

        PA has basically zero requirement to get a concealed carry permit. I applied for mine on my 21st birthday, got it a month later (in Centre County they actually checked references), and never had to take a training course or any kind of test. Virtually every other state in the country has more onerous conditions for getting a concealed carry permit, which is why PA’s permits weren’t accepted by many states for such a long time. PA has basically none. It’s a shall-issue state, so unless you’re a felon or answer the weed-out questions wrong, or one of your references hates you, you will get the permit.

        One of us goofed – NH allows private sales of handguns.

        PA went shall-issue when I still lived in the state. I know how that worked, and what went down around then.

        I had a permit issued by the Centre County sheriff. They must have a new sheriff because the sheriff at the time (Denny Nau) didn’t check references. As far as I know, my references for my NH permit were never checked.

        I have friends in Montgomery County which were fingerprinted when they got their carry permit. Poking around on the web, I see some folks saying the Uniform Firearms Act of 1995 prohibited that practice. I do not recall that being part of the law, I also recall a) my friends getting fingerprinted after 1995, and b) a bunch of discussion on the PA-RKBA mailing list about sheriffs doing extra checks.

        I was mistaken about carry being prohibited in places serving alcohol. I always thought that was banned in PA, but looking around I see it is not. Mea Culpa. On the other hand, in NH, unless it is a courthouse or a building with a court, I can legally carry in any government building. And NH law is silent on firearms in schools, meaning NH does not prohibit it.

      • Don escaped Texas

        in places serving alcohol

        TN has this useless (in other words ambiguous and dangerously susceptible to being abused by cops and DA) language about how you can’t carry under the influence, but no BA level is specified.

      • DEG

        When I was walking around Rapid City during FreedomFest last year, I noticed some bars had signs up saying firearms were prohibited in the bar.

        It turns out, South Dakota has a law prohibiting carry of firearms in bars if the bar’s revenue is more than 50% from alcohol sales.

      • Sean

        I don’t recall ever being fingerprinted in either Bucks or Montco. Montco used to have some extra form for your local police, but I think that was dropped.

      • DEG

        When did you get your permit in MontCo?

        There was talk on the PA-RKBA list of a lawsuit against the sheriff of Bucks County over “extras” right around ’95. The sheriff backed down and asked the courts to dismiss the case, which they did.

      • Sean

        Early 00s.

      • db

        Denny Nau issued my first permit in ’94. I know he contacted at least one of the references.

      • DEG

        Interesting.

        He never talked to mine.

      • db

        I thought it was funny that he issued one at all because I listed my address as a dormitory on campus, which was true at the time. Firearms were not exactly permitted on campus then. Didn’t stop Crazy Jill, a couple of years later…

      • DEG

        I remember Crazy Jill.

        At the risk of doxxing myself, a friend’s roommate was in the same National Guard unit as her. The friend’s roommate also dated Crazy Jill for a while.

      • db

        That was a rough day–I lived in Atherton Hall, on the side facing College Avenue. I was getting dressed and heard the shots. Looked out the window and there were people still walking up the hill toward the HUB lawn, completely oblivious. I thought I was hearing a handgun being fired near the bottom of the lawn. My roommate and I kept some guns in the room, and had it been facing uphill, I like to think I would have tried to engage her.

        Had I done so, I’d probably have been expelled if not charged. As it was, I couldn’t see what was going on. Later that day, my roommate and I scrambled to get all the guns, ammo and reloading equipment (yep) out of our room and to a friend’s house.

        One of the guys from our dormitory was the guy who engaged her while she was reloading. She had a big knife and he had to disarm her. Evidently she tried to open up her femoral artery but he stopped her.

      • DEG

        Had I done so, I’d probably have been expelled if not charged.

        Definitely.

        I heard about it when I was walking to class. My usual route took me across the HUB lawn. It was closed off. I heard from one of the cops/student auxiliary (can’t remember which) that was there.

        The guy was an Aerospace Engineering major. One of my roommates knew him.

    • Sean

      Yeah, well…I picked up a rifle and a pistol on the way home from work.

      😛

      • Count Potato

        Always a classic.

    • JasonAZ

      You should ENB’s roundup today. A new level of despicable for her and “Reason” magazine.

    • kbolino

      We’ve got $3 trillion deficits two years running, the gas tax revenue is 1% of what we’re financing with debt.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        If you really wanted to cut people’s costs you’d cut the tax on diesel as it touches everything.

  25. Mojeaux

    @MLW, re Tom Cruise sleeping with an actual biological female: I don’t believe it.

    • Rat on a train

      The mayor insisted that students will get accustomed to the more nutritious options that he says are now being offered at Big Apple public schools.
      They will get accustomed to throwing it in the trash like kids did the last time somebody tried to force unappetizing food on them.

    • EvilSheldon

      Vegetarians cannot be trusted to know the difference between healthy food and garbage.

    • Tulip

      Then he should eat it. It doesn’t look especially healthy.

    • Sean

      Even worse, they’re still masking children.

    • JasonAZ

      Well, that sounds more comforting then telling a gender confused child to talk to their parents and seek professional help. Let’s just hug you and feed you more bullshit until you’re ready to mutilate yourself. WTF is wrong with this world?

    • Stinky Wizzleteats

      Step into my office.
      What…why?
      Because you’re fucking fired!!!
      That’s how it oughtta go anyway.

    • Zwak, who counted all his blessings, and counted only one.

      Huh, I didn’t know bears ate chicken.

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I didn’t realize Descano was greenlighting the SCOTUS protests. For that alone, he should be impeached and/or recalled.

  26. ron73440

    Here’s a question, can make this song today?

    My personal favorite Indian song.

  27. Fourscore

    I’m in recovery

    19 hours without power, no coffee this morning (’til now). No terlet flushing downstairs ’cause the sump may over flow plus only water left in the pressure tank. No hot food, no MW, no lights, no AC, fortunately the house was cool from a near 100 degree day yesterday

    Worst of all, no Glibs. Immediate Glib withdrawal, starting at 8 PM last night, ’til 3:30 PM this afternoon.

    We’ve had 2 extended power failures in a couple weeks, first was 9 hours, today 19. Unheard of here.

    Is this the beginning of “Last Days of Biden” ?

    I spent a lot of time sleeping/napping

    • Mojeaux

      Fourscore! Are you all right? Do you need a Glibs IV????

      • Fourscore

        I’ll have to over compensate by staying up after the usual lights out.

        I need my Glibs!

      • Fourscore

        We need more fed funding for the homeless bees. Have you seen some of their primitive living spaces?

        Trees, sharing bedrooms with humans, all kinds of places where more people wouldn’t think of living if they have a choice.

        I heard some are even in Omaha, crowded 6 K to a single room, only one opening. What would happen in someone showed up with a fully automatic bee shooter? Vacuum cleaners suck, man.

    • DEG

      🙂

  28. Draw Me Like One of Your Tulpae, Jack

    Have you noticed how car commercials are now saying “Reserve your new ___ today!”

    • Ted S.

      No, because I fast-forward through commercials.

    • R.J.

      Yes. I had a friend who reserved a Chevy SUV. And actually waited a month for it to show up, sans some equipment because chips were not available. Totally bizarre to me. I just drove a little to the country and bought a car. Cars on the lot which fit my need, I even got $3,000 off. It must be a coty thing.

    • Sean

      Yes. “With new inventory arriving daily.”

    • Animal

      No experience with cars, but we’ve been waiting three months for a new Polaris ATV, which is supposedly “in transit” right now.

      Granted you expect things to take longer here, but still.

    • Tundra

      If your car comes in a manual, you can get one waaaaay faster.

      • Scruffy Nerfherder

        Hmmmm…

      • Tundra

        My son got his Tacoma in less than a month.

    • db

      Yeah. My GF just reserved a new Toyota Sienna last month. Maybe she’ll get it in August.

      I just bought a used Tacoma via Carvana. They’re taking my old Tacoma in trade for almost exactly what I paid for it several years ago.

      The new-to-me Tacoma is selling for $3k more than its original sticker price 2 years ago with 28k miles on it.

      Nutty world.

    • MikeS

      My company makes attachments for a skid steer company you’ve all heard of. We are months behind on some customer orders and a year or more behind on some stock orders. Main culprits are things like hydraulic cylinders, control valves, electric and hydraulic motors…it’s better now but even certain thicknesses of sheet steel and certain sizes of tubing have been thrown in the mix. We couldn’t get simple wire harnesses for a long time because deliveries of the epoxy used in the connections was months behind.

    • Sean

      No one will be any safer.

    • rhywun

      Are they finally going to ban criminals? It’s about time.

    • rhywun

      No “heat dome” here, thank the gods.

  29. Not Adahn

    Did Colorado just pass some sort of gun laws/magazine restrictions?

    • UnCivilServant

      I haven’t seen anything, but I wouldn’t be surprised.

      • UnCivilServant

        Sorta related, sorta not, at the meeting they mentioned a Q&A session regarding the new NY laws, but I forgot which day that was supposed to be. Can’t find it on the calendar. Would you know?

      • Not Adahn

        tomorrow at 6:30 I believe

      • Not Adahn

        Nope, a week from tomorrow 6/29

    • Not Adahn

      I ask because the USPSA 4-Division Nationals just got moved from CO to Talladega “based on current information with regards the new requirements that competitors would have ot adhere to.”

      • Not Adahn

        Instead of taking a week to work the match, it now takes 12 days. I guess I could shoot it twice, using my production gun in L10. Both of my speedy guns are prod.

      • Not Adahn

        Hmmm, and since the L10 match happens before the Production one, it’d basically be like getting a practice round in before my real one. I’m liking this idea.

      • db

        If you work the Nationals, do you actually get to shoot for score? I didn’t know that. When I went, I had to ask our section coordinator for a slot.

      • Not Adahn

        Yup. At least you do since I got RO certified.

      • EvilSheldon

        There’s no exemption in Colorado law for out-of-state competitors. Never has been.

        Everyone was going to ignore the mag law like they were doing already, but some fuckhead state senator got wind of it and kicked up a bitchfest.

    • DEG

      2019 if I remember correctly for magazine restrictions.

      There have been attempts to fight it in the courts and with legislation. I think all attempts have failed.

  30. The Late P Brooks

    Speaking of ruthless price gouging and profiteering, are these incomprehensibly excessive oil company profits I keep hearing about based on calculated profit as a percentage of total revenue, or the inflated nominal line item?

  31. The Late P Brooks

    We went to one of those escape room places and stole Willy Wonka’s secret fudge recipe (its crap).

    interesting euphemism.

  32. Mojeaux

    I am working. Why am I not at the water park? Because I am working. Why am I working? To go to the water park, which I can’t go to because I am working. *yawn*

    • Scruffy Nerfherder

      I do coke so I can work longer so I can earn more so I can do more coke.

    • Ted S.

      I didn’t know you were into water sports.

      • Mojeaux

        Give me that clean, cool lazy river, man. Not some lame shower of warm golden liquid.